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March
05, 2007 The Mysterious
Craters: A thorough examination the debris of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings reveals further evidence of massive power and heat - a thermonuclear blast. WTC 6 was 8 stories high. The total height of its central debris of the crater was about 30 to 50 feet below sea level and about 120 feet wide. Eight stories of building collapses and leaves a hole at least 30 feet deep. (Read the rest here)
Bad
Aim Recently in the news was the story of a Utah teenager who shot and killed several people in a shopping mall. Nine people were wounded and five died before the gunman was shot and killed himself. Although this real life and death drama was overshadowed by the larger-than-life and death drama of Anna Nicole Smith in the media, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence wasn't about to miss the opportunity to rail yet again against guns. The group dusted off its old arguments in short order and was right there at the forefront blaming the gun. What it failed (again) to acknowledge was the fact that one person with a gun was quite handily stopped by another person with a gun. In this case, it was an off duty police officer who happened to be at the mall after having had a Valentine's Day dinner with his wife. He also happened to be carrying a handgun. (Read the rest here)
The
Terrorist Threat Is Grossly Overblown To be sure, Islam is evil. I have heard Islam described as "Communism masquerading as religion." Mosque and state are one and they demand total control over the lives of their subjects. Islam rules by the sword and wins converts by the sword. Wherever Muslims get the upper hand, death and devastation follow. Contrary to the words of our theologian-in-chief, Islam is not "a religion of peace" and Christians and Muslims do not "worship the same god." However, there are key differences between Islam and the fascism of the Germans and the Japanese. Foremost among them is that Islam has no center of power. It has no Tokyo, Berlin or, for that matter, Moscow. As a religion, it has no Vatican. There is no Fuhrer or Duce dispatching the armies of Islam on missions of conquest. (Read the rest here)
Libertarian
Commentary on The News, 25
FEB - 3 March, 2007 Our right
to defend ourselves: You would think, in Houston, that even the crooks watch enough news to realize that Houston home- and shop-owners are deadly people. Mama's Note: Instead of "deadly people," I'd say they were NOT helpless victims. But I still have a problem with anyone who chases down and shoots someone who is running away, unless he has clearly committed murder, of course. Even then, it's very dangerous. Our right
to defend ourselves: Another deadly Houston non-victim (as in “I’m not going to be a victim if I can help it”). Mama's Note: And another non-victim who saw fit to chase the suspect down! At what point does he become the aggressor? I'll bet anything this suspect could claim - and probably rightly so - to be in fear of his life when he "lunged" at the guy with the gun. This is the kind of thing that makes a lot of people believe those who go armed are "loose cannons" and should not be trusted with a weapon at all. (Read the rest here. Two full pages.)
Can't
Find a Husband? I have bad news for the ladies out there looking for a husband. Today's men are afraid of marriage and having kids. This is most likely because their male friends and relatives have told them what usually happens in the event of a divorce with children. In fact, some men are calling for a marriage strike. I'm a liberal female father's advocate, activist, writer and blogger. I've been studying the effect our current family law has on families, and why the laws are written the way they are. Unfortunately I have more bad news. We women have allowed radical feminists to take over the feminist movement, the one that used to stand for equality, and they've been negatively influencing family law. Now it's all about domination; in the case of divorce it's having complete control over the kids, house, money and dad's visitation time. (Read the rest here)
Foul
Emanations from the U.N. Wondering about all the backpack-toting, hairy-legged women ambling around New York City this week? They're the delegates to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Don't expect to hear about random acts of kindness from this bunch. These women care about only one thing - freeing the planet from the baleful influence of patriarchy. (Read the rest here)
Manhattan Prosecutors
Declare War on Families 2006 saw a refreshing increase in the number of commentary pieces tackling the problems with state domestic violence (DV) restraining order systems. Most, if not all of these articles focus on civil DV restraining orders. In the October 2006 issue of The Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law School professor Jeannie Suk exposes a disturbing development that had not been commented upon before. In her eye-opening article “Criminal Law Comes Home,” Suk examines a practice in Manhattan that has become routine in criminal cases involving DV, the imposition of de facto divorces in which the government “initiates and dictates the end of ... intimate relationship[s]” by subjecting “the practical and substantive continuation of the relationship[s] to criminal sanction” (10). (Read the rest here)
External
Articles A Pernicious Myth One of the most pernicious myths about democracies, and it pains me to say, even constitutional republics, is the Myth of Checks and Balances. Most of us were indoctrinated with this myth in junior high school and high school social studies class. I know I was. According to this myth, also known as the Doctrine of the Separation of Powers, distributing the powers of a government among several branches prevents the undue concentration of power in any single branch. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From
The Archives (
05/17/04) In ever increasing numbers, gun owners in this country have, by their actions, said to government: You are my master, all rights flow from you, I bow down before you and will beg, no, even pay for your permission to have my firearms. I have watched this occur here in my home state of New Mexico since January of this year, although it has been happening in many other states over the past decade or so. Let me draw an analogy for you, if I may. Let’s say robbers beset your town. They are becoming more and more brazen in their theft of money and personal property. They have even taken to kidnapping your children and using them to help with their foul deeds. A group of citizens think they have finally found the solution to this mayhem. They go to see some of the people they know to be robbers. They ask, even beg these robbers for permission to protect themselves from the very actions perpetrated on them. After the negotiations are over, the citizens are most pleased with the agreement they have struck with the thieves. (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute While media attention has been focused on the U.S. quagmire in Iraq, an equally failed war in Afghanistan has received little coverage. As in countless militaristic U.S. nation–building fiascos, “mission creep” in Afghanistan is leading to another foreign policy disaster. Although the escalation in Afghanistan has not been announced publicly, a reliable source with connections at the Pentagon tells me that the Joint Staff has been ordered to plan for a surge in that country, and the Department of Defense Comptroller has been asked to budget the money for it. As in Iraq, however, the escalation just promises to sink the United States deeper into the nation–building morass. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation This has all the markings of a late-stage collapse of empire. It can't happen too soon. The big questions are: (1) how many people will this administration kill in its final two years, and (2) what will survive of Americans' liberty? Yes, there's another question, which the New York Times raised in an editorial the other day: will the Democrats who now control Congress do anything to constrain the wild elephant at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue? We've heard the talk, Dems. Now let's do something. There's plenty of opportunity. They could start by passing a bill introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter to repeal the habeas-corpus section of the Military Commissions Act, the infamous law that lets the president seize noncitizens anywhere in the world, proclaim them suspected terrorists, hold them indefinitely without access to the courts, and even send them off to foreign torture chambers. (Read the rest here)
President Bush has decided that the U.S. government is now going to talk to Syria. The reason the president has steadfastly refused to talk to Syria before now is that Syria, he has repeatedly emphasized, is a state sponsor of terrorism. There is one part of all this, however, that is quite befuddling: The U.S. government has already been talking to Syria, at least if the CIA is still considered part of the U.S. government. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 For it was in 1907 — exactly a hundred years ago today — that yet another period of bullet-proof optimism saw the heightened application of financial "ingenuity" to the question of how to run an increased level of speculative risk. Then, a series of what we would now call the leveraged buy-outs of numerous banking interests, as well as the legal exploitation of the loosely worded trust company regulations, allowed the credit creation needed for a new breed of gamesters to fuel the outbreak of a classic investment mania. Once again, infrastructure featured heavily in the excess — this time in the shape of railroads, streetcar (tram) lines, and shipping. Once again, there was intense activity in the commodities market, amid dark mutterings of pools and squeezes. Once again, the withdrawal of international liquidity (here on the part of the Bank of England) led to the first tremors being felt in the fringe of "emerging markets" (namely, those of Egypt, Chile, and Japan). Once again, the failure of an aggressive gambit (the attempted corner of the stock of United Copper) by the leading financial buccaneers of the day — Heinze, Morse, and Thomas — sparked a freezing of credit and an instant collapse in both the securities and the operations of overstretched firms everywhere. Rescued almost solely by the will and ability of Old Man Morgan — who famously prevailed upon the illustrious stock operator Jesse Livermore to refrain from selling the market even further at its lows — the financial system staggered, but survived and, fortunately for the bewildered many, the resulting business depression was short and sharp, rather than the protracted agony to which such fiascos tended to give rise in the interventionist age which followed. Not so auspiciously, the whole salutary experience was instrumental in the campaign that culminated in the passage of legislation, in late December 1913, which founded the Federal Reserve and so ushered in the era of permanent inflation, political expansion, and endemic moral hazard in which we still must conduct our affairs. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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